Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.
Charlotte Brontë
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY Near, so very near to God,
Nearer I cannot be;
For in the person of his Son
I am as near...
CATESBY PAGET Though I do not believe in the order of things, still the sticky little leaves that come out in the ...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my dear, kiss me and be quiet.
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes; / Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart.
THOMAS GRAY ...to ride well to hounds is simply a diversion. It leaves no record. But already, my dear Charlotte...
DAISY GOODWIN Every time I look at it, It looks back at me I love the sea, its waters are blue And the sky is too ...
ESTHER EARL Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
ARISTOTLE Lost in Hell,-Persephone,
Take her head upon your knee;
Say to her, "My dear, my dear,
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY -Let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure; Mdlle Reuters is...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It would be superfluous to
drive us mad, my dear Watson
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I wish they would only take me as I am. - Dear Theo: Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh.
VINCENT VAN GOGH Oh, God! that bread should be so dear! And flesh and blood so cheap!
THOMAS HOOD Oh, God! that bread should be so dear,
And flesh and blood so cheap!
THOMAS HOOD The pain is real. Flowing as a brook beneath my flesh. I am broken, and yet, I still breathe.
E.M. BENTON I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply int...
WILFRID LAURIER The most stubborn of creatures often make the most decisive individuals. Keep your pride in your ten...
HOLLOW RYAN Indeed, Constance, you amaze me. Such a girl as you want jewels! It will be time enough for jewels, ...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue...
VICTOR HUGO Dear sir: twelve hours is as twelve years to me. I imagine you in your home, smiling, thinking of me...
LAURA WHITCOMB Dear God, I surrender this relationship to you,” means, “Dear God, let me see this person throug...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear ...
SAMUEL RICHARDSON Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human cour...
WALTER M. MILLER JR. There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.
CHARLES OLSON you dear, sweet, tantalizing phantom--hardly flesh at all; so that when I put my arms round you I al...
THOMAS HARDY But you are not a lady, Jessamine—,” Charlotte began.“Dear me,” said Will. “Such harsh tru...
CASSANDRA CLARE The golden hours on angel wings Flew o'er me and my Dearie; For dear to me as light and life Was my ...
ROBERT BURNS My dear, I could hardly keep still in my chair. I wanted to dash out of the house and leap in a taxi...
EVELYN WAUGH One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON And stay, my dear
stay...
forever, as my quiet song,
in my lilac dawn.
SANOBER KHAN This isn't the life I thought we'd have, my love.
This isn't the way I thought we'd be living, my de...
JESSICA MADLE Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS They may seizeOn the white wonder of dear Juliet’s handAnd steal immortal blessing from her lips,W...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life.
PETER O'TOOLE A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
HOMER My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
SAMUEL JOHNSON My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.
SAMUEL JOHNSON You have doubtless heard, my dear mother, the misfortune of Madame de Chartres, whose child is born ...
MARIE ANTOINETTE A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
GEORGE ADE Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My prayer is simple my dear one, my dear one. May you never need understand. My prayer is for peacet...
AMELIA ATWATER-RHODES All the Saints of God are there to protect me, to sustain me and to carry me. And your prayers, my d...
POPE BENEDICT XVI And now, dear Lord, I acknowledge afresh that You are the God of all peace, my Jehovah-Shalom. My jo...
ELIZABETH GEORGE Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them.
STEPHEN D'MELLO And every day that I spend as Charlotte and Aiden's mother, I think about my own mother, my wond...
CHELSEA CLINTON Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.
JESSAMYN WEST Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY I have a very dear family and very dear friends. They're my rock. These are people who knew me f...
MARK RUFFALO Then awake! the heavens look bright, my dear; / 'Tis never too late for delight, my dear;/ And the b...
THOMAS MORE Dear to the heart of a girl is her own beauty and charm
OVID For you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything. I would embrace any sacrifice for you and for...
CHARLES DICKENS It's important to know what you think, my dear, or else you will be so hemmed in by other people's i...
KAREN CUSHMAN My dear fellow, the way you flirt with Gwendolen is perfectly disgraceful. It is almost as disgracef...
OSCAR WILDE Dear Past, I'm a better me because of you! Dear Future, you inspire me to accomplish great things.
AIMEE CARROLL i misss the days you would hold me tight love me dear kiss me soft and whisper in my ears those litt...
HASSAN OLANREWAJU When you sing it in meditation technique it harmonizes your own life -- you make the connection with...
DOUG WHITE Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.
LOUIS ARAGON I am left alone in the wide world. My own dear family I have buried: one in Rangoon, and two in Amhe...
ADONIRAM JUDSON The stage is near and dear to me.
BELA LUGOSI Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it,...
PATRICK HENRY Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, ...
PATRICK HENRY Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it...
PATRICK HENRY I know things that eventually fades away and dies but one thing is for sure...and will stays as what...
GUITARSDEPRESSIONS Bahrain is very dear to me.
HAMAD BIN ISA AL KHALIFA Be to her, Persephone,
All the things I might not be;
Take her head upon your knee.
S...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY There ain't a lady livin' in the land / As I'd swop for my dear old Dutch!
ALBERT CHEVALIER Do you think, that I could still call you 'my dear'?
KIERA CASS I hope that my children will someday be as proud of me as I am of my mom. I am so grateful to be her...
CHELSEA CLINTON The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but doe...
SAINT IGNATIUS My dear boy', Le Chiffre spoke like a father, 'the game of Red Indians is over, quite over. You have...
IAN FLEMING There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of ou...
EZRA CORNELL If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours.
J. SHERIDAN LE FANU I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent...
JACK LONDON There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer so...
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU My Aunt Sheila was terrifying! She would put a napkin in her mouth and say, 'You've got some...
BILLY CRYSTAL My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand yo...
CHARLES DICKENS As per the law of karma, that which is your meat today, this dear beloved animal will make mincemeat...
FAKEER ISHAVARDAS He sighed contentedly. “How are you feeling, my dear?”
“I feel like punching you fo...
KIERA CASS For grief has always been so dear to you that you would make me writhing in pain in the brothel of y...
SANHITA BARUAH Dear Lynda Carter, Please be with me in my hour of need. Especially if I don't have to twirl around ...
MICHAEL R. UNDERWOOD The wolf said, "You know, my dear, it isn't safe for a little girl to walk through these woods alone...
JAMES FINN GARNER My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere y...
LEWIS CARROLL I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. A...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, y...
JAMES BUCHANAN Have you been lately in Sussex?" said Elinor.
"I was at Norland about a month ago."
"And h...
JANE AUSTEN O my mind, remember the Dear Lord, and abandon the corruption of your mind.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,...
PATRICK HENRY Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid i...
PATRICK HENRY But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It would take a great deal to crush me
CHARLOTTE BRONTë My dear dead mother wanted me to go into an honorable trade, like grave robbing. Would I listen? No....
RAYMOND E. FEIST Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I love...
BORIS PASTERNAK Dear Friend,
Please be patient with me; I need to grieve in my own way and in my own time.
Ple...
MARGARET BROWNLEY Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER My lodging it is on the cold ground, and very hard is my fare,
But that which troubles me most, is...
HOSEA BALLOU
More Charlotte Brontë
I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the mor...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or becau...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the ge...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you kno...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely b...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to st...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think w...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Monsieur, if a wife's nature loathes that of the man she is wedded to, marriage must be slavery. Aga...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refi...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rathe...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I would always rather be happy than dignified.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your prese...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madn...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the gr...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; an...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is a long way to Ireland, Janet, and I am sorry to send my little friend on such weary travels: b...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never be...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Reader, I married him.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and ab...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my b...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of br...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to a...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne."
"I ask why? I must have a reason. In all re...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand -- ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackl...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë In genere si crede che le donne siano molto quiete: le donne invece provano gli stessi sentimenti de...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to a...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë You are no ruin sir--no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about you...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë She sang, as requested. There was much about love in the ballad: faithful love that refused to aband...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive th...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë At that time, I well remember whatever could excite - certain accidents of the weather, for instance...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Jane, my little darling (so I will call you, for so you are), you don't know what you are talking ab...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is a long way off, sir"
"From what Jane?"
"From England and from Thornfield: and ___" CHARLOTTE BRONTë No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not o...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë An odour of camphor and burnt vinegar warned me when I came near the fever room: and i passed its do...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Her book has perhaps been a good one; it has refreshed, refilled, rewarmed her heart; it has set her...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë You — you strange — you almost unearthly thing! — I love as my own flesh. You — poor and obs...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am, as Miss Scatcherd said, slatternly; I seldom put, and certainly never keep, things in order; I...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë The word book acted as a transient stimulus
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Cheerfulness, it would appear,
is a matter which depends fully as much on the state
of t...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conce...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Evening Solace
The human heart has hidden treasures,
In secret kept, in silence sea...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë So you shun me? - you shut yourself up and grieve alone! I would rather you had come and upbraided m...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy." Mr. Rochester
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And w...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Tell me, now, fairy as you are, - can't you give me a charm, or a philter, or something of that sort...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-b...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither so...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I thank my Maker, that in the midst of judgment he has remembered mercy. I humbly entreat my Redeeme...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Then my sole relief was to walk along the corridor of the third storey, backwards and forwards, safe...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Am I a liar in your eyes?" he asked passionately. "Little skeptic, you shall be convinced. What love...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Relinquish! What! my vocation? My great work? My foundation laid on earth for a mansion in heaven? M...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a n...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë And as for the vague something --- was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding exp...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I hold another creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldom mention, but in which I deligh...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë The charm of variety there was not, nor the excitement of incident; but I liked peace so well, and s...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivi...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same the...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë And what is hell? Can you tell me that?”
“A pit full of fire.”
“And should you lik...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am no bird, no net ensnares me.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Conventionality is not morality.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Observe her when she has some knitting, or some other woman's work in hand, and sits the image of pe...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I smiled: I thought to myself Mr. Rochester is peculiar — he seems to forget that he pays me £30 ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Do you like him much?'
I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so v...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë They spoke almost as loud as Feeling: and that clamoured wildly. "Oh, comply!" it said. "Think of hi...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I have to live, perhaps, till seventy years. As far as I know, I have good health. Half a century of...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë And your will shall decide your destiny," he said: "I offer you my hand, my heart, and a share of al...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë [O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Jane: Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life-if ever I thought a good thought-if ever I...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had bee...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a simil...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë (...)because Miss Temple has generally something to say which is newer than my own reflections; her ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I will keep the law given by God; sanctioned by man. I will hold to the principles received by me wh...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë He turned away; he threw himself on his face on the sofa. 'Oh, Jane! my hope - my love - my life!' b...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I be...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. A...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I have now been married ten years. I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Beauty is in the eye of the gazer.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I have a strange feeling with regard to you. As if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tigh...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Beauty is given to dolls, majesty to haughty vixens, but mind, feeling, passion and the crowning gra...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Now, I've another errand for you,' said my untiring master; "you must away to my room again. What a ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I Believe she thought I had forgotten my station; and yours, sir.'
'Station! Station!-- y...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë When once more alone, I reviewed the information I had got; looked into my heart, examined its thoug...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Good fortune opens the hand as well as the heart wonderfully; and to give somewhat when we have larg...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë What the deuce is to do now?
CHARLOTTE BRONTë My help had been needed and claimed; I had given it: I was pleased to have done something: trivial, ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë But I tell you--and mark my words--you will come some day to a craggy pass in the channel, where the...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Well had Solomon said,'Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred there...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idio...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?
CHARLOTTE BRONTë His presence in a room was more cheering than the brightest fire.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am a free human being with an independent will."
Jane Eyre
CHARLOTTE BRONTë You transfix me quite.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë A great deal; you are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. If people we...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Most true is it that 'beauty is in the eye of the gazer.' My master’s colourless, olive face, squa...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I will, in few words. You are cold, because you are alone: no contact strikes the fire from you that...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Of these death-white realms I formed an idea of my own: shadowy, like all the half-comprehended noti...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë No; you shall tear yourself away, none shall help you: you shall yourself pluck out your right eye; ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Those who live in retirement, whose lives have fallen amid the seclusion of schools or of other wall...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Have you heard from his lordship lately?” I asked.
“Oh no! About six months ago I had...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Yes Mrs Reed, to you i owe some fearful pangs of mental suffering, but i ought to forgive you, for y...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë This night is not calm; the equinox still struggles in its storms. The wild rains of the day are aba...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Who told you I was called Carl David?" "A little bird, Monsieur." "Does it fly from me to you? Then ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë ...[M]y inner self moved; my spirit shook its always-fettered wings half loose. I had a sudden feeli...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms: you wandered out of the fold to seek your shephe...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë But afterwards, is there nothing more for me in life - no true home - nothing to be dearer to me tha...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, w...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë As I exclaimed 'Jane! Jane! Jane!' a voice- I cannot tell whence the voice came, but I know whose vo...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you can...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Love me, then, or hate me, as you will," I said at last, "you have my full and free forgiveness: ask...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Jane, I never meant to wound you thus...Will you ever forgive me?"
Reader, I forgave him ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It would take a great deal to crush me
CHARLOTTE BRONTë The standard heroes and heroines of novels, are personages in whom I could never, from childhood upw...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I never met your likeness. Jane: you please me, and you master me - you seem to submit, and I like t...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourse...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Rapidly, merrily,
Life's sunny hours flit by,
Gratefully, cheerily
Enjoy them as they...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I see you and St. John have been quarrelling, Jane,' said Diana, 'during your walk on the moor. But ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë My spirits were excited, and with pleasure and ease I talked to him during supper, and for a long ti...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Now for the hitch in Jane's character,' he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I h...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise fo...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Quando uma mulher sente desprezo pelo seu marido, o casamento passa a ser uma escravidão, e contra ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Detesto l’ardire, l’ardire che appartiene all’arrogante e all’insensibile, ma amo l’audaci...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I romanzieri non dovrebbero mai consentire a se stessi di stancarsi dell’indagine della vita reale...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë He that is low need fear no fall.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë ...there were two gentleman seated by it talking in French;impossible to follow their rapid utteranc...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë . . . for if we rarely taste the fulness of joy in this life, we yet more rarely savor the acrid bit...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë . . . still we are none of us perfect . . .
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I gave, at first, attention close;
Then interest warm ensued;
From interest, as improvem...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Qué terrible esfuerzo de dejar aquello que queremos
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Un hombre no puede olvidar la devoción que sentía por una mujer así, no debe ser, no puede ser
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It was her pleasure, her joy, to make me still the master in all things.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë -Let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure; Mdlle Reuters is...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë A man is master of himself to a certain point, but not beyond it. -William Crimsworth
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I held a brief debate with myself as to whether I should change my ordinary attire for something sma...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Belgium! name unromantic and unpoetic, yet name that whenever uttered has in my ear a sound, in my h...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I'm a universal patriot...my country is the world.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Pero cuando el dolor termina el recuerdo que queda a veces se transforma en placer
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I verily believe all that is desirable on earth--wealth, reputation, love--will for ever to you be t...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë No man likes to acknowledge that he has made a mistake in the choice of his profession, and every ma...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I know that a pretty doll, a fair fool, might do well enough for the honeymoon; but when passion coo...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Human beings -- human children especially -- seldom deny themselves the pleasure of exercising a pow...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructur...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë In sunshine, in prosperity, the flowers are very well; but how many wet days are there in life—Nov...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I sought her eye, desirous to read there the intelligence which I could not discern in her face or h...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitt...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless s...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë A strong, vague persuasion that it was better to go forward than backward, and that I could go forwa...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Worn out with this torture of thought, I rose to my knees. Night was come, and her planets were rise...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life. If they observed this du...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë And who talks of error now? I scarcely think the notion that flittered across my brain was an error....
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Sir,' I interrupted him, 'you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady; you speak of her with hate -...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Spring drew on...and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself,
than to commit a...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë All men must die.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Signs may be but the sympathies of nature with man.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë You are human and fallible.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë